Reverend Tyronda Burgess is a native of Nashville, TN. She is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting.  She also received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee.  She is currently working on her Doctor of Ministry (DMin) from the Memphis Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tennessee. Reverend Burgess is a Certified Public Accountant.

Reverend Burgess has pastored six congregations in the 13th and 10th Episcopal Districts during her seventeen-year pastoral ministry. Currently, she is the Executive Administrator for the Tenth Episcopal District (State of Texas) of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and Presiding Elder of the Greater Dallas District in the Tenth Episcopal District. 

Reverend Burgess is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and a charter
member of the Nashville chapter of the National Consortium of Black Women in Ministry. Reverend Tyronda currently serves as the Third Vice President for Connectional Women in Ministry and is an at-large member of the General Board of the AME Church.

Reverend Tyronda is an ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.  In her ministry, she has ministered to the needs of youth, young adults, singles, women and six congregations in Tennessee and Texas.

Reverend Tyronda is married to Reverend Lish Burgess, Jr., pastor of New Jerusalem, AME Church (Dallas, TX) and Bethel AME Church (Greenville, TX), and they have two adult sons, Lish III and Landon, and five beautiful grandchildren, Jasmine, Jackson, Tylan, Jayla and Trenton.